Medicine: general issues

This volume covers a state-of-the-art illustration of recent discoveries concerning obesity-related fatty liver diseases and liver cancer.

This book examines how legal causation inference and epidemiological causal inference can be harmonized within the realm of jurisprudence, exploring why legal causation and epidemiological causation differ from each other and defining related problems.

This book is the first one to examine the cause and effect of elderly people's healthy life expectancy, providing models that are easy to understand.

This volume comprises the select proceedings of the annual convention of the Computer Society of India.

This book describes key practices to bring school mental health programs to scale in a sustainable and effective manner.

This book studies young people's use of psychoactive drugs and its social and psychological correlates in Hong Kong.

The book addresses the interplay of healthcare and big data management.

This book highlights electromagnetic actuation (EMA) and sensing systems for a broad range of applications including targeted drug delivery, drug-release-rate control, catheterization, intravitreal needleless injections, wireless magnetic capsule endoscopy, and micromanipulations.

This book provides a clear, comprehensible and up-to-date description of how Small Angle Scattering (SAS) can help structural biology researchers.

This book discusses recent research in innate immunity, which has revealed a large number of receptors that sense the presence of microorganisms or cellular damage in tissues.

This book is about the transformation of the biomedical information to smart healthcare, the chapters are designed to discuss the health associated factors such as genetics, lifestyle, nutrition and environmental factors.

This book focuses on the health impacts of air pollution in China, especially the epidemiology-based exposure-response functions for the mortality, morbidity, and hospital admissions for respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, and mental health related to pollution.

This resource supports evidence-informed approaches to improving the cultural competence of health service delivery.

This book highlights the latest advances in functional micro/nano imaging probes and their applications for biomedical imaging and therapy.

This book provides insightful observations and analyses of Asian citizens' behaviour associated with requests to get a permit in conditions typically characterized by bureaucratic callousness.

This book provides the first comprehensive coverage of the quickly evolving research field of membrane contact sites (MCS).

This book focuses on nanorobotic agents and stem cells for biomedical applications.

The book provides and intensive overview on exosomes in cardiovascular diseases, its potential as biomarkers, as well as pathological and therapeutic effects.

This book delivers timely research on the various interfaces of family and work, and their impacts on individual wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia.

This book offers an essential guide to RNA activation (RNAa), an emerging and fascinating new field.

The book provides an intensive overview on exercise for cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment, from basic research to clinical practice.

The book provides an intensive overview on exercise for cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment, from basic research to clinical practice.

This book moves away from the frameworks that have traditionally guided ethical decision-making in the Western clinical setting, towards an inclusive, non-coercive and, reflective dialogic approach to moral decision-making.

This book explores the early-stage detection of cancer using polarized light.

This book provides a critical review of the theory and practice of University Social Responsibility.

This Brief introduces SuperParamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles (SPIONs), the different synthesis approaches, their applications in the field of diagnostics and treatment and finally as theranostic agents in cancer.

This brief summarizes different types of organic and inorganic nanomaterials for drug delivery in cancer therapy.

This brief highlights recent research advances in the area of nano-therapeutics.

Providing a fascinating insight into the factors that influence individual choices regarding eating habits, diet and other behavioral patterns relevant to obesity, this book offers a new perspective about the relationship of obesity to poverty and inequality.

This book utilizes quantitative research methods to identify the relationship between the level of mindfulness and demographic factors among university students in Malaysia.

This thesis studies the impact of food processing on the stability and antioxidant capacity of anthocyanins in aqueous and real food systems.

This book describes the multiple aspects of (i) preparation of the magnetic core, (ii) the stabilization with different coatings, (iii) the physico-chemical characterization and (iv) the vectorization to obtain specific nanosystems.

Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is a highly prevalent hereditary renal disorder in which fluid-filled cysts are appeared in both kidneys.

This book introduces readers to essential methods and applications in translational biomedical informatics, which include biomedical big data, cloud computing and algorithms for understanding omics data, imaging data, electronic health records and public health data.

The book describes the core resources in informatics necessary to support biomedical research programs and how these can best be integrated with hospital systems to receive clinical information that is necessary to conduct translational research.

This book elucidates the genetic, biological, morphological and functional aspects of telocytes.

This book offers readers an introduction to the current status of nanoparticles and other nanomaterials that have potential applications in theranostics.

This brief highlights nanoparticles used in the diagnosis and treatment of prominent diseases and toxic conditions.

This thesis focuses on the development of gold- and non-classical platinum-based anti-cancer agents that display distinctively different anti-cancer mechanisms compared to the commonly used cisplatin.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of public hospital reform in China, which is a hot topic for China's new round of health sector reform.

The book examines the Good Lives Model (GLM) of correctional rehabilitation and its dual aims of risk reduction and well-being enhancement for individuals who have committed crimes.

This book discusses recent research in innate immunity, which has revealed a large number of receptors that sense the presence of microorganisms or cellular damage in tissues.

This book offers unparalleled insight into the convergence of sustainability and pharmaceutical product development, with a specific focus on optimization processes.

This book examines how legal causation inference and epidemiological causal inference can be harmonized within the realm of jurisprudence, exploring why legal causation and epidemiological causation differ from each other and defining related problems.

This book comprehensively reviews various feed additives and supplements that are employed for ruminant production and health.

This book is the first-known contributed volume focused exclusively on physical activity in the school setting.

Everybody wants to know what makes people happy.

This book uniquely operationalizes "e;sustainable ageing"e; as a concept for reimagining ways by which: (1) social and health threats (i.

This book provides an updated comprehensive review of the FNA cytology of superficial neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease processes obtained by percutaneous ultrasound guidance.

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